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...Medical School research team last week received federal approval for a controversial project that involves gene splicing experiments with deadly diphtheria toxin...
...John R. Murphy, associate professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, who heads the research group, has speculated that successful manipulation of the toxin gene could result in the development of a treatment for malignant melanoma a type of skin cancer...
...more concrete level, the Federal government must begin authoritative testing of Agent Orange, a lethal defoliant which was aerially sprayed on the Vietnamese jungle during the war. The deadly toxin dioxin, the active ingredient of Agent Orange, has been linked to cancer in Vietnam vets and birth defects among their children. In addition, some have argued that Agent Orange has been responsible for Delayed Stress Syndrome, a mental disturbance many vets have faced since the war. Efforts must be made along federal and state level's to see whether Agent Orange is indeed as dangerous as feared...
...complain, is the U.N., which had been conspicuously reluctant to investigate the U.S. charges vigorously. In a speech in West Berlin last year, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged the Soviets and their allies with violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol on chemical warfare and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. One month after Haig's charge in West Berlin, the first U.N. team went to Thailand, but it visited only a handful of refugee camps during a brief eleven-day investigation...
...experiment's opponents fear that if the treated toxin were accidentally released into the atmosphere, it could trigger a diphtheria epidemic. Diphtheria is an often-fatal disease whose spread was effectively wiped out by a vaccine...